Is this cataract??

Question

When I woke up 3 days ago my right eye was itchy and I started to rub it trying to get the the object out, because felt like there was something in my eye. It then became painful and red. Every time I blink it hurts really bad. I went to the doctor yesterday and I couldn't show him what I took a photo of, I couldn't find that thing again. Here is the photo: http://i25.tinypic.com/kb28me.jpg

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He said the photo is interesting but he cannot see that thing on my eye when he looked at it in real life not in photo. He told me he took a white object out but I didn't see it and he gave me medication for cataract.

Today my right eye is a little blurry, it's not painful anymore but I can still feel there's something in there, I can't take a photo of that thing again no matter how much I try. My questions: Is it possible that the thing in the photo is what the doctor took out? What is this?? Help!!

Answer 1

That appears to be an air bubble.  You might have had a foreign object in  your eye that scratched you when  you blinked and your eye watered it out before the doctor could see it.  Or, it could be stuck to the back of your eyelid.  Did your doctor flip your lid and look at the back of it? Did he put orange dye in your eye and look with a blue light?  All of these things might be necessary to find a scratch or foreign object.

I am a little curious about the "medication for cataract".  There is no such thing.  Maybe he gave you an antibiotic or artificial tear.  In either case, you need to go back or find another doctor if you are still in distress and he found nothing to cause the pain.

Answer 2

The thing you circled in the picture looks to me like an air  bubble in the "eye liquid" (you often see them when you pull back eyelids). A cateract is when the lens of the eye becomes so cloudy you can't see much from that eye (the pupil of you eye would look almost whitish. Aslo, If you had a cateract, it would take a long time to develop (usually).

Answer 3

Absolutely not! That is not a cataract. A cataract is inside of your lens. Your lens is behind your pupil. It sounds like you have allergies. maybe acute allergy and that is why he gave you the same medication that a cataract patient gets. It's not because you have cataracts but because it helps prevent and stop infections. Was what he gave you Pred-Forte (a while and pink bottle)? that is one of the meds that fights infection.

If you had an object inside of you eye (no matter what size it was) it could have scratched your cornea and that it was it was hurting so bad, and every time you blinked (which is normal) you were running your eyelid through that and making it difficult to heal.

Continue to take you eye drops as prescribed and you will be fine.

I hope this helps.

By the way, the only time you can see a cataract with a naked eye is when it's REALLY bad. I've only seen it twice and they were faint and the patients were elderly.